Artist Research Post Modernism

Post Modern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath.

Dada

In the early 20th century Duchamp exhibited a urinal as a sculpture.
His intention with this was he told everyone it was a piece of art because he said it was.
From a chronological point of view Dada is located solidly within modernism however a number of critics have held that it anticipates post modernism.

What I like about this piece is how he manipulates peoples minds, they are made to believe that this is a work of art because the artist tells them so as if we are the ones who decide if we are artists.

Jackson Pollock

During the late 1940s and early 1950s Pollock's radical approach to painting revolutionized the potential for all contemporary art.

Jackson Pollock's process

Working on the floor on unstretched raw canvas Pollok worked from all four sides using artist materials, he used industrial items non-imagery, throwing linear layers of paint dripping drawing brush marks across the canvas, essentially this blasted art making beyond any prior boundary.

When looking at a work using dripping pattens like this you need to take a closer look to appreciate the art behind the piece if you look long enough you can start to see different things from the lines and pattens.